I use a 500 MHz 4GB HDD system to run Fedora 11. I want to use it as a router, web server and php, c++, mysql development environment, console only. I do not need printers, graphics, electronics design, dial-up support on it. I use vim, ssh, samba, iptables, NetworkManager for initial config. I would stop using mail server. These are the groups currently installed:
Administration Tools Authoring and Publishing Base Development Libraries Development Tools Dial-up Networking Support Electronic Lab Fonts Graphics Hardware Support Input Methods Legacy Fonts Mail Server MySQL Database Network Servers Printing Support Server Configuration Tools System Tools Text-based Internet Web Server Windows File Server
The problem is that they eat up 90% of my only working partition, that is, almost 3GB. Can you please suggest a way I can free a few hundreds of MB on HDD? The problem is that, every time I try to remove the most useless group, I lose basic functionality, like NetworkManger or samba client. I hope that maybe you could suggest a solution to render my system usable for the next months, updates and some reasonably small c++ programming included.
Thank you in advance.
headset001@yahoo.com píše v Út 28. 07. 2009 v 03:57 -0700:
I use a 500 MHz 4GB HDD system to run Fedora 11. I want to use it as a router, web server and php, c++, mysql development environment, console only. I do not need printers, graphics, electronics design, dial-up support on it. I use vim, ssh, samba, iptables, NetworkManager for initial config. I would stop using mail server. These are the groups currently installed:
Administration Tools Authoring and Publishing Base Development Libraries Development Tools Dial-up Networking Support Electronic Lab Fonts Graphics Hardware Support Input Methods Legacy Fonts Mail Server MySQL Database Network Servers Printing Support Server Configuration Tools System Tools Text-based Internet Web Server Windows File Server
The problem is that they eat up 90% of my only working partition, that is, almost 3GB. Can you please suggest a way I can free a few hundreds of MB on HDD? The problem is that, every time I try to remove the most useless group, I lose basic functionality, like NetworkManger or samba client. I hope that maybe you could suggest a solution to render my system usable for the next months, updates and some reasonably small c++ programming included.
I suppose that by console you mean a text-mode console. Then you can remove all the groups. Or rather do a fresh install with all groups unselected (even Base unselected) and then install only individual packages you will really need (like the web/mysql server, etc). This way you can get to cca 1 GB of used disk space, cca 200 packages installed and cca 100 MB of used RAM after startup, all depending on number of other stuff installed/started by default.
And NetworkManager can be easily replaced by classic "network" service, they can use the same config files.
Dan
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